Objective
Watermarks are the most important tool for dating undated documents written on paper. Hence, catalogues and databases of watermarks play an eminent role for the work of medievalist and paper historians. The proposed project has the aim to improve this tool in two directions.
One is the development of a distributed watermark database and processing system, which allows the access to local watermark databases with different structures in different locations and the processing of images from different sources. Such a distributed system will be implemented as server/client system and will be based on the Internet. This will make possible the remote access to watermarks from different collections and sources. The common access to watermarks in Russian and western European libraries will be of major benefit for historians of both sides. Russian libraries keep a lot of manuscripts and early printed books from West Europe. As paper production in Russia started only in the 18th century, both sides share the same watermarks. Until now, only a small part of watermarks from Russian collections has been published so far, and this has been done with hand-made tracings.
The second direction is to improve the watermark extraction by new radiographic methods and optical techniques. This will make the production of watermark hardcopies faster and cheaper and lift up their quality significantly.
The project will give a tremendous boost to watermark research in Russia and interesting findings for historians can be expected The project will be implemented by five teams (2 INTAS teams, 3 NIS teams from Russia), which will have access to huge collections of manuscripts and early printed books in Russia, Netherlands and Austria.
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1010 Wien
Austria
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